MedUni Vienna mourns the loss of Harald Heinzl

© MedUni Wien - The Institute of Clinical Biometry at the Center for Medical Data Science mourns the loss of Harald Heinzl, who passed away on 29 January 2024. Harald Heinzl was born in Lower Austria in 1965. He studied statistics at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Vienna. In 1991, he took up a position as a university assistant at the Department of Clinical Biometry at the Institute of Medical Computer Science of the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, which was being established at the time, and has remained associated with the later Medical University ever since. During this time, Prof. Harald Heinzl developed his expertise in statistical modelling, particularly in life span analyses, and wrote his dissertation on continuous variables in such models. He later worked on flexible modelling, explained variability and the validation of forecasting models. He habilitated in "Medical Statistics, Biometry and Epidemiology"; due to his many scientific achievements, he was awarded the professional title of university professor in 2014.